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Ref:46/07
March 23, 2007
ACTION PLAN TO TACKLE HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Grahame Maxwell, ACPO lead on Human Trafficking and Deputy Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police, said:
“I am delighted to today witness the launch of the UK Human Trafficking Action Plan. This launch is the result of many months of hard work on the part of all stakeholders involved in combating this trade that brings misery to many people’s lives.
“Human Trafficking is a rapidly growing area of criminal activity. Its practitioners perpetuate a trade that was outlawed 200 years ago this week, but that persists even today in our communities.
“The Action Plan represents a significant step forward in our joint approach to rescuing and supporting the victims of trafficking, to beating the traffickers, and to making it clear that the United Kingdom is a hostile environment for the slave traders of the 21st century”
ENDS
Notes for Editors
• The ACPO Press Office can be contacted via 020 7084 8946/47/48 (office hours) or via 07803 903686 (out of office hours).
• The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) is an independent, professionally led strategic body. In the public interest and, in equal and active partnership with Government and the Association of Police Authorities, ACPO leads and co-ordinates the direction and development of the police service in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In times of national need ACPO, on behalf of all chief officers, coordinates the strategic policing response.
• ACPO’s 341 members are police officers of Assistant Chief Constable rank (Commanders in the Metropolitan Police and City of London Police) and above, and senior police staff managers, in the 44 forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and other forces such as British Transport Police and States of Jersey Police.
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